PLANE CRASHES
ESCAPE OF OOCUPANTB MACHINE SOMERSAULTS (Special to Times.) GR F, YMOUTH, Wednesday When a Gipsy Moth ’plane crashed at tlie Wataroa aerodrome, south Westland, to-day the pilot, Mr M. R. Spiers, escaped with facial injuries and a passenger, Mr J. A. Hart, with a slight injury to an arm. Both men belong to Greymouth. The machine failed to rise against a olioppv crosswind and struck a fence It dived downward on the side of a road an turned upside down in the middle of the road. Messrs Spiers and Mart were thrown out. The fuselage of the machine was shattered at the cockpit and one wing was ripped off, while the propeller was broken.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 15
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116PLANE CRASHES Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 15
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